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1 IC-3110 / IC-3110W / IC-3110P User Manual / v1.0

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3 Table of Contents Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet Network Camera Package Contents Basic Introduction Product Highlights Key Components Descriptions for LED Indicators Camera Installation Locate the IP Address of this Network Camera Using the Camera Admin Software to Locate the Camera Camera Settings MJPEG MPEG H OSD Night Vision LAN WLAN Dynamic DNS UPnP LoginFree RTSP Motion Detection Motion Detection Motion Region System Info Camera Information Date / Time Setting Utilities Account Status Space Alarm File Management Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software Installing Network Camera Surveillance Software Using Network Camera surveillance software

4 3-3 Configure Network Camera surveillance software Configure cameras General Settings Change Display Layout Full-screen mode Scan Zoom-in / Zoom-out PTZ Snapshot Recording Video Playback Chapter IV: How to Access the Network Camera Remotely with iphone & Android Phones iphone App Installation Android App installation Web browser installation Chapter V: Appendix Specifications How to apply for a free DNS account at Troubleshooting

5 Chapter I: Familiar with your Internet Network Camera 1.1 Package Contents Thank you for purchasing this Network Camera! Before you start to use this Network Camera, please check the package contents. If anything is missing, please contact the dealer of purchase and return the package to claim for missing contents. Item Name Quantity 1 Network Camera 1 2 Antenna(wireless model only) 1 3 Power Adapter 1 4 Ethernet Cable 1 5 Driver and User Manual CD-ROM 1 6 Accessory kit 1 7 Quick Installation Guide 1 System Requirements Computer with Windows 7, Vista or XP PC with dual core or above; at least 2GB RAM Internet Explorer 6.0 above Existing 10/100 Ethernet-based network or wireless b/g/n network(for wireless model only) 4

6 1.2 Basic Introduction Thank you for purchasing this Network camera! This Network camera is an ideal product for all kinds of video surveillance purposes, like home/office safety, kid/pet monitoring, and remote video acquire etc. Edimax IC-3110 series is tailor made to stream live video over your network. You can view the Network camera's video from anywhere on your local computers or via the Internet. Besides, Edimax IC-3110 series features high quality and high frame rate video streaming through advanced video compression. In order to achieve the highest video quality, simply select H.264, MPEG4 or M-JPEG depending on your network settings. Some people may concern that there will be some places which will not be covered by camera, but this problem is completely solved by this Network camera. If the environment is too dark, it s also not a problem. This camera equips 9 IR-LEDs and will illuminate automatically when the environment is too dark, and the image captured by this camera will still be clear. You can discover more useful functions in next section! 5

7 1.3 Product Highlights No pre-loaded software required - all you need is a browser like Internet Explorer 6 (and above, with plugin installed). With supplied video surveillance software, you can connect up to 16 video cameras and view images captured by every camera at the same time. Supports 3 video resolutions: MJPG and H.264 SXGA(1280 x 1024), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240); MPEG4 XGA (1024 x 768), VGA (640 x 480), and QVGA (320 x 240). Anti-flicker function (eliminates flash caused by fluorescent lights, 50 / 60Hz selectable). Supports all major web browser, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera*. Audio function, suitable for applications like video conference or environment monitor. Wired and wireless network (802.11b / g / n) support, supports up to 100Mbps for wired network and 100Mbps for wireless network. Wireless data encryption (WEP / WPA) Supports DHCP and PPPoE protocol, you can also assign a fixed IP address to the camera also. Supports Dynamic DNS (used to allocate the Network Camera s Internet address, when the ISP you re using does not assign you with a fixed Internet address). Supports UPnP, Windows XP (and above) will discover this Network Camera in network neighbor automatically. Send captured picture and video by or FTP when motion is detected. Configurable motion detection sensitivity (6 levels from most sensitive to least sensitive). Built-in real-time clock, date and time information will be recorded with every captured picture / video clip (also supports auto time synchronization via network time protocol). Upgradeable firmware. Supports up to 16 users, and you can set different password to different user. Usage and event logging. *Some functionality like fit to window only works on Microsoft Internet Explorer. 6

8 1.4 Key Components Front View Light Sensor IR LED LAN LED WLAN LED Camera Focus Ring Power LED LAN LED: Indicates LAN activity WLAN LED: Indicates Wireless LAN activity (only work on wired model plugged with USB WiFi dongle and wireless model) Power LED: Indicates power status IR LEDs: Lights up when environment is too dark Light Sensor: Detects lights of the environment Focus Ring: Adjusts focus 7

9 Top View Wired model USB Port POE model SD Card Slot Wireless model Antenna SD Card Slot: Accepts SD / SD-HC memory card for image / video storage USB Port: Connects to certain wireless module. Antenna Base: Connects to supplied antenna 8

10 Bottom View Ethernet Connector Reset to Default /WPS Microphone Power Connector Audio Connector WPS: click the button on IP Cam and click it on the AP you want to connect wireless connection.(works on wired model with USB wifi dongle plugged or wireless model) Reset to Default Button: Press and hold for more than 10 seconds to reset the camera settings to factory default value. Power Connector: Connects to 12V DC power adapter Ethernet Connector: Connect to your local area network Audio Connector: Connects to external speaker for audio output Microphone: Built-in microphone for voice pick-up 9

11 Back View Tripod Connector: Connects to any standard tripod / camera wall holder. MAC Address Label: Shows the MAC address of this Network Camera. Useful when you can t locate the camera on the network. 10

12 1.5 Descriptions for LED Indicators LED Name Status Description Power/Cloud Off Camera is not powered (camera off) On Camera is correctly powered (camera on) Flash The power LED will flash and light up when the camera is powered on and ready for access to Cloud. LAN Off LAN port not in use On LAN port in use Flash Transferring data via LAN port WLAN Off Wireless LAN not in use On Wireless LAN in use Flash at low speed Flash Waiting for WPS connection from AP and flash speed is once a second. Transferring data via wireless LAN 11

13 1.6 Camera Installation Please follow the following instructions to set your Network Camera up. 1. Unpack the product package and check if anything s missing. 2. Connect the Ethernet cable to your local area network, and connect the other end to the LAN jack of this Network Camera. NOTE: You can skip this step if you plan to use wireless LAN only. 3. Plug the power adapter to wall socket, and connect the power connector to the power jack located at the bottom of the Network Camera. 4. Connect two antennas to the antenna bases, which is located at the back of this Network Camera. 5. Place the camera at a secure place, and point the camera to the place you wish to monitor. If you wish to hang the camera on the ceiling or wall, please use the tripod connector (located at the bottom of the camera) to secure the camera. 6. Launch Internet Explorer on your computer, and following the instructions given in next section to set the Network Camera. 12

14 1.7 Locate the IP Address of this Network Camera Default IP address of this Network Camera is If you wish to assign another IP address to this Network Camera, you have to log onto the web configuration interface of the camera first. If the left three fields of the IP address of your computer is not , you ll have to change the IP address of your computer first: 1. Click Start -> Control Panel 13

15 2. Double-click Network Connections icon. 3. Right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties. 14

16 4. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), then click Properties. 15

17 5. In IP address field, please fill in any IP address begins with , and ends with a value greater than 2 and less than 254 (You can use the example in the picture ). In Subnet mask field, please fill Please keep all other fields empty, and click OK. If you changed the IP address of this Network Camera and you forget it, there re 2 methods to recover it: a. Press and hold the Reset button located at the bottom of this Network Camera, to clear all settings of the Network Camera and reset the IP address back to You ll lose all settings in the Network Camera. b. Ask network administrator to check the DHCP release table, if the camera was set to obtain the IP address by DHCP, a new record will be added to DHCP release table on DHCP server when the Network Camera is connected to the local area network. 16

18 1.8 Using the Camera Admin Software to Locate the Camera If you can t connect to the camera by the instructions given in last chapter, you can use camera admin software to search the camera which is connected to your local area network. The admin software is also capable to locate multiple cameras on your local area network. Please insert the user manual CD-ROM supplied in the product package, and the CD will automatically running the installation, if not please double-click EdiView Finder utility_v1.0.5 icon :. Then follow the following instructions to install and use camera admin software: 17

19 1. Double-click Ediview finder installer, and click Run when you re prompted: 2. Ediview finder will list all Ediamx network cameras found on local network, with their IP address and MAC address: You can click icon to find network cameras on local network again, or select an network camera and click Icon to configure it (see next step). To preview the image of network camera, please click the icon indicated by white arrow, and provide username / password, and a snapshot will be displayed. This function is only available when this icon is displayed as blue color. 18

20 3. Ediview finder will inspect network camera s connection type and if it s connected to Internet, this may take a few seconds, please be patient 19

21 4. This message will tell you if your network camera is connected to Internet (connected to the cloud), and the connection type (wired or wireless). When you see this message, click Next to continue. If you don t want to change network camera s name and password, you can click X on the upper-right corner of window to close ediview finder utility. 5. You can input these information to configure network camera. Camera Name: Input network camera s name used to identify this network camera. Password: Input new password Confirm: Input new password again for confirmation Click OK button to keep changes. 20

22 After the camera finder utility is launched, all cameras found on your local area network will be displayed. To preview the image of network camera, please click the icon indicated by white arrow, and provide username / password, and a snapshot will be displayed This function is only available when this icon is displayed as blue color. All camera-related information will be displayed here. If you wish to connect to certain camera by web browser, double-click the camera listed here. The camera admin software also provides several functions: Language change: This camera finder utility supports 3 languages: English, Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. You can select the language you wish to use from language dropdown menu located at upper-right corner of camera finder utility. 21

23 Search camera: Click this button to search all cameras on local area network again. Configure camera: Click this button to configure camera s network and security setting. You ll be prompted to input camera s password: 22

24 Input the password (default: 1234) and click OK to configure the camera s network and security setting: In Lan Setting page, you can configure camera s network settings. Select DHCP to set the camera to obtain an IP address from DHCP server on local area network automatically, and select Manual IP to input the IP address information manually. Click OK to save settings. 23

25 1.9 Logging in the Management Interface Make sure the network camera is correctly powered (Power LED is on), and then launch Internet Explorer and type the IP address of the network camera in address bar of Internet Explorer. You should be prompted to input the user name and password: Default user name is admin and password is Click OK to continue after user name and password has entered. If you re rejected, maybe the password has been modified previously. This should not happen if this is a newly-purchased camera, however, if you get the camera from someone else, the password would be changed. Please try to obtain the correct user name / password, or you ll have to reset the camera. 24

26 If this is the first time you log onto web management interface, you ll be prompted to install ActiveX Plugin: When you see this message, please click OK, and click Download the latest ActiveX link to download plugin so you can use this camera: Click Run to download plugin: 25

27 Click Run to install plugin: Please click Next button to start installation (click Next or Install when you re prompted, until installation is complete). 26

28 Click Finish to complete plugin installation. Now you can go back to web browser, and you should be able to see the image captured by camera (You may need to press F5 or CTRL-R to reload web page). 27

29 Note: If you see one of these messages (or both): OR Your computer may not have the display capability that this Network Camera requires, or you don t have Microsoft DirectX installed. Please download Microsoft DirectX from Microsoft s website ( and try again. In some cases, your computer is able to display the image from Network Camera correctly, but you ll still see these messages. If this happens, just ignore them. 28

30 Chapter II: Using Web Management Interface 2.1 Camera Settings The first menu after you logged onto web management interface is Camera, and this is the only menu you can see the real-time image from camera. You can always back to this menu by clicking Camera on the top of web management interface. 29

31 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Video Type Frequency Flip Mode Brightness / Saturation / Sharpness Volume Description Specifies video encoding type. Available options are MPEG4, MJPEG, and H.264. Different encoding type requires different bandwidth, and provides different video quality. If the place where this Network Camera points to has a (or more) fluorescent light(s), the image may look flashing. In this case, you can adjust this setting to the frequency of electrical power; this can improve the image quality effectively. If you don t know which one you should use, just try any of them and select one with less flicker. If you re not putting this camera on a horizontal surface but hang the camera on the ceiling or wall, you can use this function to rotate the displaying image. Select brightness, saturation, and sharpness from dropdown menu, and click - ' or + button to increase or decrease brightness / saturation / sharpness setting value. In certain environment, adjust brightness, saturation, and / or sharpness will help improve video quality. Adjust the volume of audio output. Press + or - button to increase or decrease volume. NOTE: When you change any setting(s) listed above, please click Apply button so the change(s) will take effect. For following functions, changes will take effect right away. Snapshot Click Snapshot button to save the displaying image as an image file, a message box will appear after you click Snapshot button, showing the filename and location of saved image file (default filename is current date and time). Default directory used to save image file is C:\, you 30

32 can change the directory by clicking the text input box located at the right of Snapshot button: Recording Speak to Network Cam Digital Zoom and you ll be prompted to select a new directory. Press this button to record the displaying image as a video file in AVI format, and you can play the video file back by Windows Media Player. To stop recording, press Stop Recording button (the same button). You can also change the directory used to save video file. You can transmit the voice received by your computer s microphone to the camera s external speaker. Press and hold this button, then speak to the microphone. Please note that external speaker must be connected to this camera. If you wish to enlarge certain portion of the captured image, you can click this button to set digital zoom: Fit to Window Size Click Enable to enable digital zoom function, then you can drag the slide bar to adjust zoom ratio. You can also use your mouse to drag the zoom area (the green square) to reposition the zoom area. Click this button and the image size will be adjusted to fit the size of browser window. Full Screen Click this button to display the image in full-screen 31

33 mode (uses all available space to display the image captured by this camera). *Please note: If you re not using Microsoft Internet Explorer as web browser, some functionalities may not work properly. 32

34 2.2 Video You can change video-related settings of this Network Camera in Video menu. You can access this menu by clicking Video on the top of web management interface. There are 5 types of video settings for this Network Camera. To set the option of a certain video setting, put mouse cursor on it and its options will appear. 33

35 2.1.1 MJPEG You can adjust video settings when you select MJPEG as video type in Camera menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Video Resolution Video Quality Frame Rate Description Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1280 x 1024, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest. Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video frame rate. Available options from 30 to 1, indicates how many video frames this camera will transmit every second. Higher frame rate provides smooth video watching experience and will not lose details of video, but requires more network bandwidth. If you re using this video camera with insufficient network bandwidth, selecting a lower frame rate setting will help. Click Apply for settings to take effect. 34

36 2.1.2 MPEG4 You can adjust video settings when you select MPEG4 as video type in Camera menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Video Resolution Video Quality Frame Rate Description Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1024 x 768, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest. Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video frame rate. Available options from 30 to 1, indicates how many video frames this camera will transmit every second. Higher frame rate provides smooth video watching experience and will not lose details of video, but requires more network bandwidth. If you re using this video camera with insufficient network bandwidth, selecting a lower frame rate setting will help. Click Apply for settings to take effect. 35

37 2.1.3 H.264 You can adjust video settings when you select H.264 as video type in Camera menu. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Video Resolution Video Quality Frame Rate Description Changes the resolution of video. Available options are 1280 x 1024, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Higher resolution provides better video quality and more detail, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video quality. There are 5 levels of video quality from Lowest to Highest. Selecting a higher video quality will provide better video quality, but requires more network bandwidth. Changes video frame rate. Available options from 30 to 1, indicates how many video frames this camera will transmit every second. Higher frame rate provides smooth video watching experience and will not lose details of video, but requires more network bandwidth. If you re using this video camera with insufficient network bandwidth, selecting a lower frame rate setting will help. Click Apply for settings to take effect. 36

38 2.1.4 OSD If you need to display information about this camera, like camera s name or current date / time, you can use OSD (On-Screen Display) menu: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item On-Screen Display Show Camera Name Show Date Show Time Description Select Enable to enable on-screen display function (information about this camera will be displayed on camera s display image), and select Disable to disable it. Select Enable to show camera s name on camera s display image, select Disable to hide it. Select Enable to show current date on camera s display image, select Disable to hide it. Select Enable to show current time on camera s display image, select Disable to hide it. Click Apply for settings to take effect. When OSD is enabled, selected OSD items will be displayed like this: 37

39 2.1.5 Night Vision This camera equips with 10 IR LEDs to enhance video quality in the night. You can enable or disable IR LEDs by Night Vision menu: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Alaways** turn off IR led Alaways** turn on IR led Auto mode Turn on/off IR led by schedule Description Do not use IR LEDs, even it s very dark. Turn IR LEDs on, even it s very bright. Let camera decide to switch LED lights on or off automatically: LEDs will light up when it s too dark. If you don t know which option you should select in this page, select this one. Switch IR LEDs on or off by schedule. You have to input start time in Turn on IR led from section, and end time in Turn off IR led from section. Click Apply for settings to take effect. 38

40 2.2 Network Settings All network-related settings can be found in this menu, and you have to specify TCP/IP parameters in this menu if you want to change IP address, use PPPoE, Dynamic DNS, and activate UPnP function. You can access this menu by clicking LAN on the top of web management interface. After you selected Network, network setting menu will appear. There are 6 sub-menus available here: Please click the network setting you wish to set, and then refer to instructions given below: 39

41 2.2.1 LAN You can define IP address and select the port number you wish to use here. 40

42 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Network Type Description This camera can obtain the IP address from DHCP server automatically (if you have one), or set a fixed IP address. Select DHCP to obtain IP address automatically or Static IP Address to assign this Network Camera with a fixed IP address. IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway Primary DNS Secondary DNS When DHCP is selected, IP address parameters below will be grayed out. Specify the IP address for this Network Camera here. Specify the subnet mask for this Network Camera here. Specify the gateway address of the local network here. Specify the IP address of DNS server here. Please input IP address only. If you don t know the address of DNS server, ask network administrator or your ISP for help. Specify the IP address of backup DNS server here. When primary DNS is unreachable, Network Camera will use the IP address specified here as DNS server. Web Port This field is optional. Specify the port number of web management interface here. If it s not 80, you ll have to add :port after the IP address / hostname of this Network Camera. Enable PPPoE User Name Password MTU For example, if the HTTP port number you specified here is 90 and the IP address of Network Camera is , then you have to input in the address bar of Internet explorer. Select Enable to activate PPPoE function of this Network Camera, select Disable to disable it. Input the PPPoE username assigned by your ISP here. Input the PPPoE password assigned by your ISP here. Input the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) given by your ISP here. Ask your ISP if you don t know what value you should input here. Default value should work with 41

43 most of ISPs and will give you a nice network performance. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. 42

44 2.2.2 WLAN The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Wireless Connection Network Type Description Select Enable to activate wireless network function of this Network Camera, select Disable to disable it. Select the network type of wireless connection. Available options are Infrastructure (Connect the Network Camera to a wireless access point), and Adhoc (This Network Camera will become a stand-alone wireless network point, other wireless computers / devices can discover this Network Camera and connect 43

45 to it without wireless access point). Available Networks You can set to Adhoc when you don t have any wireless access point, but your computer has wireless network card. Set to Infrastructure when you have wireless access point, and you have computers with wired network connection. Here shows all wireless access points found by this Network Camera. Please note not all access points will be displayed at the same time, if the access point you expected to connect does not appear, you may have to click Refresh button for several times until it appears. The descriptions of all fields is listed below: Connect: You can select the wireless access point you wish to connect here. SSID: the SSID of all found wireless access points will be shown here. Some wireless access point may hide their SSID; in this case, you have to identify them by their MAC address. MAC Address: If you there are many wireless access points in proximity or some wireless access point hides it s SSID, you can use MAC address to distinguish them. Signal: Shows the radio signal strength in percent. Channel: Shows the radio channel of this wireless access point. Encryption: Shows the encryption type used by this wireless access point. You must use the same encryption type if you wish to connect to a certain wireless access point. If the wireless access point does not use encryption, Disabled will be displayed here. Network Type: Shows the network type of a certain wireless access point (Infrastructure or Adhoc). 44

46 SSID Input the SSID of the wireless access point you wish to connect. It should be less than 32 alphanumerical characters. Channel Wireless Key Self PinCode Configure via Push Button When you select a wireless access point above, it s SSID will be filled in this field automatically. However, if the SSID is not displayed (the wireless access point you selected choose to hide it s SSID), you have to know it s SSID and input it here, or you will not be able to connect it. Select the radio channel you wish to use here. When network type is Infrastructure, the radio channel is auto-selected according to the channel that wireless access point uses. You can only select the channel number when network type is Adhoc. Input the encryption key of selected wireless access point here. This is required when access point you wish to connect uses encryption. Here displays the WPS pin code used to connect to WPS-enabled wireless access points. You have to input this number into the WPS enabled access point to establish WPS connection. Click this button and this camera will enter PBC-style WPS connection state for 120 seconds. Please push Start PBC button on the wireless access point you wish to connect within 120 seconds to establish WPS connection (The remaining time will be displayed on the button). Configure via PinCode If connection can not be established after 120 seconds, you ll be prompted by a message box, and you can press Start PBC button to try again. If you have wireless access point s WPS PIN code, you can input it here and press Start PIN button to start to establish PIN-style WPS connection. 45

47 2.2.3 Dynamic DNS If your ISP does not give you a fixed Internet IP address (i.e. the Internet address you re using when you access the Internet is not always the same ask your ISP for detailed information), you can use this function to help you locate the IP address of this Network Camera when you re away from home or office. Before you can use this function, you ll need to apply for an account at dyndns.org/ no-ip.com ( or ). Detailed instructions of how to apply a new account can be found on dyndns.org s or no-ip.com website. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Enable DDNS Provider Host Name User Name Password Description Select Enable to activate Dynamic DNS function of this Network Camera, select Disable to disable it. Select dynamic DNS service provider here. Dyndns.org or no-ip.com is available currently. Input dynamic DNS host name here. Input dynamic DNS user name here, must be the same as the one you applied on dyndns.org or no-ip.com. Input dynamic DNS password here, must be the same as the one you applied on dyndns.org or no-ip.com. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. 46

48 2.2.4 UPnP When UPnP function is activated, all UPnP-compatible computers / network devices will be able to discover this Network Camera automatically (only those in the same local network). This function is useful and you don t have to remember the IP address of this Network Camera. Simply open Network neighbor and it s there! The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Enable UPnP Description Select Enable to activate UPnP function of this Network Camera, select Disable to disable it. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. After UPnP function is activated, a popup message will appear: 47

49 Click the message to open My Network Places, and you ll see the Network Camera: You can double-click the icon to launch Internet Explorer and log onto Network Camera s web management interface directly. 48

50 2.2.5 LoginFree This camera provides a method to let unauthorized users to view the image captured by this camera, which is called as LoginFree. When you wish to let everyone to view the image captured by this camera, or integrate the image with your own web application, you can use this function: Input the filename here, and click Apply to save settings, then other users can access the image by this filename with.jpg extension with the camera s IP address as prefix. For example, if your camera s IP address is and the filename you set here is picture, then everyone on the web can access the image captured by this camera by using the following address: Please note that no authentication will be required to see the captured image. If you wish to disable this function, clear the text in Filename field and click Apply. 49

51 2.2.6 RTSP If you want to watch video captured by this Network Camera by your own RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) media player, you can use this function to setup RTSP parameters, so your RTSP-compatible player will be able to receive video data. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item RTSP Port MPEG4 RTSP Path H.264 RTSP Path Description Input the port number of RTSP here. Default setting is 554. Input the path of MPEG4 RTSP video file. When you use RTSP-compatible media player to play RTSP stream, please remember to add.sdp file extension. Input the path of H.264 RTSP video file. When you use RTSP-compatible media player to play RTSP stream, please remember to add.sdp file extension. 50

52 2.3 Motion Detection When you wish to use this camera to monitor the activities, motion detection function will be very useful. Camera will detect the motion in captured image, and take a snapshot when motion is detected. So you can use this camera to keep the safety of the belongings you have. To use motion detection, click the following link from the top of menu: After you selected Motion Detection, a sub-menu will appear. There are 5 sub-menus available here: Detailed descriptions of every setting will be given below. 51

53 2.3.1 Motion Detection You can use this menu to setup basic motion detection settings: The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Enable Motion Detection Motion Detection Interval Description Select Enable to enable motion detection, and select Disable to disable this function. Select the time interval between two motions from dropdown menu. When a motion is detected, camera will not detect any motion again within the time interval you specified here. Available options are from 0 second (always detect new motion) to 60 seconds. 52

54 Recording Time Sending File Type Send snapshot file to FTP Send snapshot file to SD Card Record Storage File Type Record File Size Record to Folder Authentication User Name Password Samba Server Shared Folder Storage File Type Record File Size Select the duration you wish this camera to record image when a motion is detected from dropdown menu. Available options are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (seconds). Select the file type that will be saved when a motion is detected. Select JPEG and a still picture in JPEG format will be saved; and select AVI to save a motion video clip. Select Enable to send the saved file to appointed FTP server when a motion is detected, select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure FTP server parameters in FTP Configuration menu first, so this function will take effect (see below). Select Enable to send the saved file to appointed address when a motion is detected, select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure mail server parameters in FTP Configuration menu first, so this function will take effect (see below). Select Enable to record detected motion to SD card (if there s one), and select Disable to disable this function. Select saving file type for motion detection: JPEG (still picture) or AVI MPEG4 / AVI H264 (for motion picture). Input the maximum file size of saved file in Mbytes. Maximum file size is 100. Select Enable to save file to a network folder which supports SAMBA (also known as Windows Network Neighborhood ), select Disable to disable this function. If username and password are not required to write files in specified folder, select Anonymous ; if required, select Account. Input user name required by destination network folder. Input password of the user name required by destination network folder. Input the IP address or host name of network file server. Input the folder name on file server. Select saving file type for motion detection: JPEG (still picture) or AVI MPEG4 / AVI H264 (for motion picture). Input the maximum file size of saved file in Mbytes. Maximum file size is 100. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. 53

55 2.3.2 Motion Region You can define the motion detection region within the image that camera captures, so this camera will ignore motions which are not covered by the motion region setting, and reduce the chances of false alarm. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Description Region 1 3 Check the box to enable motion detection region 1 to 3. You can check multiple boxes to enable multiple motion detection regions. When you checked a box, a new region (and region number) will be displayed on captured image. 54

56 Sensitivity Refresh Save Move the slide bar to change the motion detection sensitivity setting: Drag the slide to the right to increase sensitivity (camera will detect minor changes in the image), and drag the slide to the left to decrease sensitivity (camera will only detect major changes in the image). In case the objects of the image captured by the camera moved, click this button to reload the image captured by camera, so you can decide the motion detection region more precisely. Save motion detection region settings. To change the motion detection region, you can resize and reposition it: Move the mouse cursor to the eight dots located at the border of motion detection region, and the mouse cursor will switch to,, or. You can click and hold mouse button and move the mouse to resize the motion detection region. To move reposition the motion detection region, move the mouse within the motion detection region, and the mouse cursor will switch to. Click and hold mouse button and move the mouse to reposition the motion detection region. 55

57 You can define the destination address of sending and mail server parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Recipient Address Subject SMTP Server Description Input the recipient s address here. Specify the title of sending , so you can identify the mail sent from this camera from others quickly. Input the IP address or host name of the SMTP server (the server that delivers the for you) here. Sender Address If you don t know, please refer to the SMTP server you re using in your software (like Outlook, Outlook Express etc.), or ask your network administrator or ISP. Input the address of mail sender, this will help you to identify the sent by this Network Camera by sender s address. SMTP Authentication NOTE: Some mail server would reject to deliver the from unknown sender, it s recommended to input your own address here, or any other actual one. Some SMTP server requires mail senders to be authenticated before they can send . If your SMTP 56

58 User Name Password server requires you to do so, please select Enable, or select Disable to disable it. If you don t know, please refer to the SMTP server you re using in your software (like Outlook, Outlook Express etc.), or ask your network administrator or ISP. Please input the user name of SMTP server here, if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication. Please input the password of SMTP server here, if your SMTP server requires the use of authentication. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. After that, you can click Send a test to send a testing to the address you set here, so you can make sure the setting you specified here is correct and working. 57

59 2.3.4 FTP Configuration You can set FTP server s parameters here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item FTP Server FTP Port User Name Password Remote Folder Description Input the IP address or host name of the FTP server you wish to use here. Input the port number of the FTP server you wish to use here. Input the user name of the FTP server you wish to use here. Input the password of the FTP server you wish to use here. Input the remote folder name on the FTP server here. If nothing is specified here, all uploaded image files will be placed in FTP server s root directory. Passive Mode Please ask FTP server s administrator to know which folder you should use. Certain user name may have restrictions and therefore can not place the file in the directory not owned by the user. Select Enable to use passive mode to send file, or select Disable to not to use passive mode to send file. Some FTP servers require passive mode, if you don t know, please ask FTP server s administrator; most of FTP servers will work fine with both modes, but if you 58

60 found that non-passive mode is not working, you can try to use passive mode. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. After that, you can click Upload a test file to send a file to the FTP server you set here, so you can make sure the setting you specified here is correct and working. 59

61 2.3.5 SD Card Configuration You can define the filename and destination folder when saving a file in SD card. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Enable Cycle Recording File Name Prefix Destination Folder Description Check this box and this camera will automatically erase oldest image file to make rooms for new image files when SD card is full. If you don t want to lose old image files, do not check this box. Specify the filename prefix (the texts which will be added before the file sequence number). Specify the folder name that camera will store the saved image or video clip. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. 60

62 2.4 System Info You can use this menu to get the operational information of this camera: After you selected System Info., a sub-menu will appear. There are 4 sub-menus available here: Detailed descriptions of every setting will be given below. 61

63 2.4.1 Camera Information Camera information allows you to set the name and administrator s password of this camera. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Camera Name Description Please specify the name of this Network Camera here. This can be used to identify your camera on the network when you have more than one Network Camera in the same network. Password Confirm Password Default name begins with IC- plus the last 6 characters of the MAC address of this Network Camera. You can modify the name to the one you can remember and meaningful to you, but never give all Network Cameras in the same network with same name. Please specify user name admin s password here. (The one you need when you log onto web management interface and use admin as user name. Please input the same password again, to make sure there s no typo. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. 62

64 2.4.2 Date / Time Setting This setting allows you to change the date and time of the real time clock in this Network Camera. You can set the time manually, or use network time protocol (NTP) to set the time automatically. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Set Date/Time manually / NTP Server Description If you select Set Date/Time manually, you can set the date and time of this camera manually. Please input the date and time you wish to set here. Date / time format is YYYY / MM / DD HH:MM:SS Time is in 24-hour format. You can click Synchronize to PC time to use the time of the computer you re using. Example: 24 th August 2007 = 2007/ 08 / 24, and PM 9:24:30 = 21:24:30 Time Zone NTP Server Daylight Saving If you select NTP Server, the camera will get the date and time from NTP Server automatically. Please select the time zone of the country / city of resident from dropdown menu here. Please input the IP address or host name of NTP server here. You can use default value pool.ntp.org, or ask your ISP for the IP address or host name, if they have one. If your area of residence uses daylight saving, select 63

65 Time Synchronize to PC time Yes ; otherwise select No. Click to input current time of your computer to Set Date / Time manually field. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. If you wish to use the date and time setting of the computer which is connecting to the camera, click Synchronize to PC time button. The date and time setting of the computer will be filled to date and time setting in this page Schedule You can use this menu to setup Schedule Snapshot/Recording settings: Item Enable FTP Schedule Description Select Enable to send the Schedule Snapshot to the appointed FTP server, or select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure FTP server parameters in FTP Configuration menu first, so this function will take effect. 64

66 Time Interval File Control Enable Schedule Time Interval Enable Schedule Recording Time Interval Recording Time You can choose to upload one image to FTP server according to the time interval you wish, or choose to upload image as you wish to FTP server every second. This option allows you to choose to upload each schedule snapshot with different file name composed of date/time, or to choose to upload the schedule snapshot with the same file name you wish. If you choose the latter, the prior-saved schedule snapshot will be overwritten by the latest schedule snapshot. Select Enable to send the Schedule Snapshot to the appointed address, or select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure settings in menu first, so this function will take effect. This option allows the network camera to send one image according to the time interval you wish. Select Enable to enable schedule recording, or select Disable to disable this function. This option allows the network camera to send one recording file according to the time interval you wish. This option allows you to adjust the recoding time based on your preference. Send Recording File to FTP File Control Send Recording File to Note: The available recording time is based on the video resolution and video frame rate settings in Video menu. Select Enable to send the recoded video to the appointed FTP server, or select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure FTP server parameters in & FTP menu first, so this function will take effect. This option allows you to choose to upload each recorded video with different file name composed of date/time, or to choose to upload the recorded video with the same file name you wish. If you choose the latter, the prior-saved recorded video will be overwritten by the latest recorded video. Select Enable to send the recorded video to the appointed address, or select Disable to disable this function. You have to configure settings in & FTP menu first, so this function will take effect. 65

67 2.4.4 Utilities This menu allows you to upgrade firmware, clear all settings, reboot the Network Camera, and switch LED lights on/off. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Upgrade Firmware Description If you downloaded latest firmware file from our website, you can click Browse button to pick a firmware file located on your computer s hard drive and you can upload the firmware file to the Network Camera later. After you selected a proper firmware file from your computer, click Upgrade Firmware button to start upgrade. DO NOT DISCONNECT NOW! If the firmware file you provided is invalid of you didn t provide the firmware file, you ll be prompted to select another valid firmware file again. Reset to Factory Defaults The Network Camera will reboot after the upgrade procedure is done. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE IP ADDRESS OF THE CAMERA WILL RESET TO DEFAULT VALUE: Clear all settings in the camera. Please think again before you do this, and then click this button to reset all settings. NOTE: IP address will be reset to default value also. You ll need to change the IP address 66

68 Reboot Device LED Setting setting of your computer if the IP address of your computer does not begin with , and subnet mask is not , or you ll not be able to connect to this Network Camera again. If you found the Network Camera is responding slowly or behaves strange, you can click this button to try to reboot the Network Camera, this may help. Click Turn off LED light button to switch the LED light of this Network Camera off, so all LEDs on the Network Camera will stop working, in case you don t want other people know the camera is transferring data. You can click this button again to switch LED lights on again. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect Status This menu provides all information about this Network Camera, like firmware version, system uptime, date / time, and network information. 67

69 2.4.6 System Log All activities of this network camera will be logged, and you are allowed to enter System Log menu to view these logs. 2.5 Account If you wish to allow other people to view the live image captured by this camera, but don t want to allow them to modify system settings, you can give them user-level user name and password, so they can only view the image and can not change any system setting. This camera supports up to 16 users. After you selected Account, you ll be prompted to input user account information: 68

70 The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item User List Login Password Confirm password Authority Add Modify Remove Description Lists all users currently available. Input the login name (user name) of this account. Input the password of this user here. Input the password of this user here again for confirmation. Select the privilege of this user: Operator (able to change system settings) or Guest (View images only). Click this button to add the account. Modify an existing user s information. You have to select a user from user list first. Remove an existing user. You have to select a user from user list first. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. Please note: only one user (including administrator) will be able to view the image of Network Camera at the same time. 69

71 2.6 SDHC After you selected System Info., a sub-menu will appear. There are 4 sub-menus available here: Please click the SD card setting you wish to set then refer to instructions given below: 70

72 2.6.1 Status Here shows the remaining card space for you. 71

73 2.6.2 Space Alarm When you re using SD card to store captured image and video clip, you can have this camera to send an to you when there s only little remaining space left on SD card. Please note: If you have set settings in Motion Picture function, you can click Copy Mail Config button to use the same setting. However, you can use a different setting here. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item Recipient Address Subject SMTP Server Sender Address SMTP Port SMTP enable SSLv2/v3 function Description Input the address you wish to receive space alarm. Input the title of space alarm . Input the SMTP server address you wish to use to send . Input the sender address of the space alarm . You can set port number according to your mail server. Select Enable if your SMTP server supports SSLv2/v3 such as gmail. 72

74 SMTP Authentication User Name Password Reserved Space Select Enable if the SMTP server you re using requires authentication, and input the username and password below; If the SMTP server you re using does not require authentication, select Disable here. If you re not sure, ask your ISP or network administrator. Type the user name of the user who has the mail account. This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends s performs authentication. Type the password of the user who has the mail account. This setting is necessary when the SMTP server which sends s performs authentication. Select the amount of SD card space which will be reserved and will not be used from dropdown menu. Click Apply to save settings and make the new settings take effect. You can click Send a test button to send a test by the configuration you set here. 73

75 2.6.3 File Management You can use this menu to manage the files stored on SD card. The descriptions of every setting in this menu will be given below: Item FirstPage PrevPage NextPage LastPage SelectAll ClearAll Delete Description Jump to first page of file list. Jump to previous page of file list. Jump to next page of file list. Jump to last page of file list. Select all files in this page. Clear all files in this page. Delete selected files. 74

76 Chapter III: Using Surveillance Software 3-1 Installing Network Camera Surveillance Software The Network Camera surveillance software provides various functions like video recording, after this software is installed, you can use your Network Camera to safeguard your property. Please follow the following instructions to install the surveillance software. 1. Double click the setup file located in xxx folder in supplied CD-ROM, when the following window appears, click Next. 2. You can specify the destination folder of software installation, you can just use the default folder, and click Next to continue. 75

77 3. If you need installation program to create a desktop icon or a quick launch icon for you, click all items you need here, than click Next to continue. 76

78 4. Here lists all options you chose in previous steps, if everything s correct, click Install to start installing procedure, or click Back to go back to previous step to modify installing settings. 5. The installing procedure will take some time, please be patient. 77

79 6. When you see this window, it means the software installing procedure is complete. Please click Finish to finish the procedure (Network Camera surveillance software will start after you click Finish button, if you want to start it later, uncheck Launch IPCam Surveillance Software box). 78

80 3-2 Using Network Camera surveillance software You can click IPCam Surveillance Software icon from desktop, quick launch bar, or start menu to start the Network Camera surveillance software. Before you start: Network Camera surveillance software will only work when your monitor s resolution is 1024 x 768. Please change the resolution before you use Network Camera surveillance software, or it won t Here are descriptions for all components of Network Camera surveillance software: Video displaying area Language Display layout Full screen / Scan Zoom Out / Zoom In PTZ Control / Home Close window (stop surveillance) / Minimize window Message display box Recording / System configure Playback / Snap shot 79

81 You can put the mouse cursor on a certain component and see its button name, and here re detailed descriptions of all buttons: Item Video displaying area Language Display layout Full screen Scan Zoom out Description The image of all connected cameras will be displayed here. Select a language from this dropdown menu to change display language. Change camera image display layout (Click a layout icon to change camera display layout). There are 8 kinds of available display layouts. Click this button to switch to full screen mode (only display all camera s image), press ESC key to quit full screen mode. Click this button and the Network Camera surveillance software will switch displaying the image of all connected camera automatically. Click this button once to activate scan function (scan icon will become blue ), click again to stop scanning (scan icon will become white ). Zoom-out (To see more objects). This function is only available for supported cameras. Zoom In Zoom-in (Too see more details). This function is only available for supported cameras. PTZ control Home Recording There are 8 directions in PTZ control ring. If the camera you connect support PTZ, you can use PTZ control ring to change the direction that camera points to. This function is only available for supported cameras. Click this button to return the camera to Home (default) position. This function is only available for supported cameras. Start video recording. Configure Software / camera configuration. 80

82 Playback Playback a recorded video file. Snapshot Take a snapshot of current camera. Message display Close window (stop surveillance) Displays all system messages like camera is disconnected etc. Terminates Network Camera surveillance software. Minimize window Minimizes Network Camera surveillance software window. Video displaying area Displays the image of all cameras by the display layout you selected. 81

83 3-3 Configure Network Camera surveillance software Configure cameras Before you use this Network Camera surveillance software, you must configure the camera(s) you wish to connect. Please click System configure button and a popup menu will appear: Please select Configure Cameras to configure cameras: Note: If you re prompted by a windows security alert which asks you if you want to block IPCamViewer program, please click Unblock button, of Network Camera surveillance software will not be able to function correctly. 82

84 Camera tab In this tab you can configure all cameras you wish to connect. Up to 16 cameras can be connected simultaneously: Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Description Channel Select the channel number you wish to set. Camera Search All cameras found on your local network will be displayed in Camera Search box. Select Select a camera listed in Camera Search box, and click Select button to fill all parameters of selected camera in every camera configuration fields. Refresh Rescan all cameras on your local network. If you didn t see the camera you expected in Camera Search box, or new cameras has been joined to your local network after last scan. Name* Input the name of camera here. Default value is the first 6 bytes of camera s MAC address, you can change the 83

85 name of camera so you can remember the camera s location of purpose easily. Model Displays the model of selected camera, this field can not be changed. IP* Input the IP address of camera. Username* Input the user name of camera. Web Port* Input the web port of the camera. By default it s 80. Password Input the password of camera. Default value is You should change the password if you changed the password of selected camera. Video Format** Select the video encoding format of this camera (MJPEG or MPEG4). Reset Clear all fields in Camera Configuration section. OK Save settings in this tab. Cancel Discard all settings in this tab. *: It s recommended to use Select button to fill the content of this field. **: Only available for cameras support this function. After you ve set all channels you wish to set, click OK to save settings, and if everything s correct, you ll see the camera s image in Network Camera surveillance software s main menu: 84

86 Schedule Recording In this tab, you can setup scheduled video recording, so you can record the video captured by all cameras you have by a pre-defined schedule. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Channel One Time Schedules New (One Time Schedules) Description Select the channel number you wish to set. You can specify the one-time schedule for selected camera; this schedule will be executed once only. Click this button and a new window will appear: 85

87 Please specify the time duration of this one-time schedule (the date and time of From and To ), then click OK to save settings. Edit Delete New (Weekly Schedules) Please note you must set a schedule that will be happened in the future, you can not set a schedule in the past. You can modify a scheduled recording item. Select a schedule in One Time Schedules list, and click Edit button to edit the start and end time of this schedule. Delete a selected schedule item. Click this button and a new window will appear: You can define recording schedule that will be executed at the specified time of certain weekday(s) in a week. 86

88 Please check all weekdays that applies, and set the start time in From field. You can set the duration of video recording in Period field (format is HH:MM:SS), and the end time will be calculated automatically and displayed in To field. You can also click All Time Record button to define a recording schedule that will be executed every weekday, from 12:00:00AM to 11:59:59PM. Edit Delete OK Cancel Click OK to save changes. You can modify a scheduled recording item. Select a schedule in One Time Schedules list, and click Edit button to edit the start and end time of this schedule. Delete a selected schedule item. Save settings in this tab. Discard all settings in this tab. 87

89 Audio For cameras that support audio, you can use this tab to decide if you wish to hear the audio captured by selected camera. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Channel Mute Audio Record Video Only OK Cancel Description Select the channel number you wish to set. Check this box and the Network Camera surveillance software will not play the audio captured by this camera. Check this box and the Network Camera surveillance software will not record the audio captured by this camera. Save settings in this tab. Discard all settings in this tab. 88

90 Motion Record With this function activated, only motions captured by the camera will be recorded, so you don t have to waste hard disk storage space on images you don t need to pay attention to. WARNING: For applications that security is highly concerned, it s not recommended to use this function since some tiny changes you may need to know may not be able to trigger the camera and the camera will not start recording. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Channel Enable Disable Recording Time Invoke alarm when motion is Description Select the channel number you wish to set. Enable motion record function. Disable motion record function. Select the time duration that camera will record when a motion has been detected from dropdown menu in seconds. Send an alarm when a motion has been detected by the camera. 89

91 triggered Send mail when motion is triggered OK Cancel Send an to a pre-defined address when a motion has been detected by the camera. Save settings in this tab. Discard all settings in this tab. 90

92 3-3-2 General Settings You can set system-wide settings of this Network Camera surveillance software in this menu General tab All general settings like file storage directory and recording spaces can be set here. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Data Directory Free Recording Space Max Video File Size Description Set the directory (folder) you wish to store the recorded video and captured image. You can click Browse button to pick a directory in your hard disk. Displays remaining storage space. Defines the maximum file size of every video file. When the size of file exceeds this value, Network Camera surveillance software will open another file to record the 91

93 Scan Time Cycle Recording video. Define the time period to pause between every camera switch when you activate Scan function. You can decide the behavior when hard disk space is full: OK Cancel Disable: Do not overwrite recorded video files. Enable: Overwrite recorded video files. Save settings in this tab. Discard all settings in this tab. 92

94 Setting tab If you want to use motion detection function and wish to get an that contains the image captured by the camera, please setup your related parameters here first. Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Subject Recipient Address New Description Specify the subject of sending . Here lists all addresses you set. Click this button and you ll be prompted to input the address. Click OK to save changes. 93

95 Edit Delete Sender Address SMTP Server SMTP port SMTP Auth SMTP Account SMTP Password OK Cancel Select an address from Recipient Address box, and click Edit to edit the address. Delete selected address. Specify the address of sender. Specify the IP address or host name of the SMTP server you wish to use. For most of ISPs they will only allow its subscriber to use their SMTP server, if you don t know which SMTP server you should use, please refer to the setting of your software or ask your ISP / network administrator. Specify the port number of the SMTP server you wish to use here. By default (and the setting of most of SMTP servers) it s 25. Select Enable if your SMTP server requires authentication, select Disable if it s not required. If you don t know if your SMTP server requires authentication, please refer to the setting of your software or ask your ISP / network administrator. Input the SMTP account (username) of your SMTP server here. In most cases, it s the same with your POP3 username (the one you used to receive ). Please refer to the setting of your software or ask your ISP / network administrator if you re not sure about this. Input the SMTP password of your SMTP server here. In most cases, it s the same with your POP3 password (the one you used to receive ). Please refer to the setting of your software or ask your ISP / network administrator if you re not sure about this. Save settings in this tab. Discard all settings in this tab. 94

96 Security If you don t want other people to access this Network Camera surveillance software, you can set a password to protect it. You ll need to input the password every time you wish to use this Network Camera surveillance software: To set password, please use Security tab in General Options menu: 95

97 Here are the descriptions of all setting items: Item Enable Disable Password Confirm Password Description Requires password authentication when this software starts. Password authentication is not required when this software starts. Input the password you wish to use here. Input the password you wish to use here again About This tab shows the version number of the Network Camera surveillance software you re using. 96

98 3-4 Change Display Layout This Network Camera surveillance software provides 8 kinds of display layout: Every layout displays different number of camera and camera arrangement, you can click the icon that presents a specific kind of layout, and the video displaying area will change accordingly. Layout style 1: 1 Camera only Displays the video of 1 camera only. Layout style 2: 4 Cameras Displays the video of up to 4 cameras. 97

99 Layout style 3: 6 Cameras Displays the video of up to 6 cameras. Layout style 4: 8 Cameras Displays the video of up to 8 cameras. Layout style 5: 9 Cameras Displays the video of up to 9 cameras. Layout style 6: 10 Cameras Displays the video of up to 10 cameras. 98

100 Layout style 7: 13 Cameras Displays the video of up to 13 cameras. Layout style 8: 16 Cameras Displays the video of up to 16 cameras. 99

101 3-5 Full-screen mode If you want to use all available spaces on your monitor to display surveillance image, you can click Full Screen button to switch display mode to full-screen mode. To exit full-screen mode, press ESC key. 100

102 3-6 Scan If you have more than one camera configured, and you wish to switch the displaying image between cameras, you can click Scan button to switch between all configured cameras. NOTE: If a camera is configured but disconnected, it will still be displayed in a scan sequence (you ll see nothing and you ll see Disconnected text displayed at the upper-left corner of display image). Click Scan button once to activate scan function (scan icon will become blue ), click again to stop scanning (scan icon will become white ). 101

103 3-7 Zoom-in / Zoom-out For cameras that support zoom-in / zoom-out function, you can use this function to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera s view, or enlarge the image size of a certain object to see its detail. Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image, then click button to see more objects that fall in the scope of camera s view, or click to enlarge the image size of a certain object to see its detail (Before zoom-in, you may need to use PTZ buttons - described in next section) to find an object you wish to see its detail). 102

104 3-8 PTZ For cameras that support pan - tilt function ( but this model doesn t support PTZ function), you can change the position that camera points to, to see different places that fall in the scope of camera s view. Please select a camera in video displaying area by clicking on its image, and then click the directions you wish the camera to move to (total 8 directions available). Click Home button ( ) to return to camera s home (default) position. 103

105 3-9 Snapshot You can take a snapshot of selected camera and save it to Snapshot sub-folder of pre-defined data directory. Click snapshot button once to take a snapshot; you can take as much snapshot as you want before hard disk is full. 104

106 3-10 Recording You can start video recording of selected camera manually by clicking Start Recording button: When recording starts, you ll see a message displayed in message displaying box like 1/1 10:00:00, Camera 2 Start Manual, which means camera 1 starts recording manually on 1/1 at 10:00:00. To stop recording, click Start Recording button again, and you ll see a message displayed in message displaying box like 1/1 10:00:00, Camera 2 Stop Manual. 105

107 3-11 Video Playback You can playback all recorded video by clicking this button. A new window will appear: You have to search the video file before you can play it. There are two kinds of video search: Time Search (search all videos file that falls in a specific period of time) and Motion Search (search all videos recorded by motion detection function and falls in a specific period of time). Please define the start and end date / time of the time period you wish to search, and then click Search button (of Time Search of Motion Search ). All found videos will be displayed, select the video you wish to play and click Play button to playback. 106

108 Chapter IV: How to Access the Network Camera Remotely with iphone & Android Phones IC-3110 series features smart phone support for iphone users and Android phone users to monitor their home using Edimax Network-Cameras. Please check following instruction for installation. The following instruction applies to all Edimax routers Step1: Ensure My-PC is Internet-ready via Router Step 2: Check with your ISP (Internet Service Provider) whether a Public and fixed IP address is assigned to you. An IP address is like an unique phone number that is totally different from all the others for calling a particular person. You could browse the Internet or monitor your home over the Internet with iphone by using this unique IP address. Therefore, an unique IP address is a Public and fixed IP address. With this, it s much easy for iphone monitoring your home. For example, an IP address looks like numbers separated with a dot as: (1) Fixed and public IP address: All IP addresses different from the following are fixed and public IP address Write down this IP address and go to Step 3. In this guide, we use a hypothetic IP address, (yours is different) (2) Dynamic IP address If your ISP service staff cannot tell you what IP address is for you, you can still monitor your home with iphone, but it turns more complicated. Your IP address for browsing Internet will change by hours or by days. Over 90% chance, you may get a dynamic IP address. There is a solution called Dynamic DNS (DDNS) for free. With this, you could register a name like for example to find out Edimax network camera 107

109 in the I-Phone. To apply for this, refer to the Appendix How to apply for a free DNS account in the In this guide, we assume you have already got (yours may vary) and go to Step 3. Step 3: Configure the 1 st Camera based on the following: Configure the 2 nd Camera based on the following: 108

110 Configure the Broadband Router based on the following: 109

111 4.1 iphone App Installation (1) Please download Ediview application from Apple s Appstore (2) You can launch EdiView by clicking EdiView icon. You ll see welcome screen and please wait for few seconds (3) When you launch EdiView, it will attempt to connect to existing configured network cameras. Please make sure you re connected to wireless access 110

112 point if your Edimax network camera is located on your local area network. If you want search for network cameras on your local area network, or you want to add an Ediamx network camera on Internet, please click Cameras button to abort and setup network camera manually (4) To view more than 4 network camera s live image on your iphone, click button on upper-left corner, and you can view up to 12 network camera s live image at the same time You can click this button repeatedly to switch 1 camera / 4 cameras / 12 cameras view. 111

113 (5) You can manage network cameras in Cameras list. To add a new network camera, click Add New Camera. (6) EdiView will search for network camera on your local area network, and list all network cameras found here. To add an network camera manually or add an network camera on Internet, click Add Camera Manually button. 112

114 (7) In this page, you can input network camera s parameters manually Camera Type: Switch operating mode between Cloud and IP. In cloud mode you have to input Cloud ID**; In IP mode you have to input IP address or host name of network camera. Camera Name: You can define a name for this network camera to help you to remember the purpose / location of this network camera. IP: Input network camera s IP address or host name. Port: Input network camera s port number, generally it s 80. User Name: Input the user name of network camera. Default user name is admin Password: Input the password of network camera. Default user name is

115 (8) You can also setup video parameters of this network camera. Brightness: Select video brightness (1 to 5, darkest to brightest). Saturation: Select video saturation (1 to 5, lowest to highest). Sharpness: Select video sharpness (1 to 5, lowest to highest). Video Quality: (Highest to Lowest, select a lower video quality will help when network speed is slow). Tilt Speed: Select camera pan & tilt movement speed. Click Done to save changes 114

116 (9) To delete an existing IP camera, click Edit button. Click of the IP camera you wish to delete (10) Click Delete button to delete IP camera 115

117 (11) Now you can back to Live menu, if you see a snapshot appear, it indicates the network camera is correctly configured. Click snapshot picture to enlarge video view (12) If network camera you connected supports pan/tilt control, you can click the button on the upper-right corner to switch to Gesture mode and use your finger to slide on the live image view, and network camera will move as your finger slides 116

118 A white arrow will also appear to indicate the direction of camera movement. Please note: If the button appears on upper-right corner shows Switch, you can t move camera. (13) To view events (motions detected by network camera), click Events) button below in network camera s live view All network cameras will be listed and you can choose one to see its events list. (14) All events of selected network camera will be listed here. You can click an event to see enlarged photo. 117

119 (15) Event s snapshot and event date / time will be displayed. Click the button with network camera s name (upper-left corner) to go back. 118

120 (16) You can use this function to mark your network camera on Google map, so you can locate them and remember their physical location easily. Please note that you need active Internet connection to show map on your iphone. Click Map button at the bottom of your iphone to access Map menu. (17) Google map will be shown on your iphone, and it will attempt to locate your current location by GPS and network. 119

121 If you re using your iphone indoor, your iphone may fail to locate your location. You can still use your finger to drag the map and find your current location manually. If the network camera you re about to mark on the map does not locate at your current location, you can also use your finger to drag the map and find the location where your network camera is installed. A red pin indicating the location of network camera will be placed at the center of map. (18) When you found the location where network camera is installed, click Locate button located at upper-right corner of your iphone, and a camera list will be shown Select the network camera you wish to mark on the map, and click Done when done. 120

122 4.2 Android App installation (1) To install Ediview application, launch Market. (In your Android device s All apps menu) (2) Click magnifier icon at upper-right corner of Android market, and input Ediview in search field 121

123 (3) You should able able to find Ediview utility (If not, please check spelling), and click Download to download and install Ediview (4) Android will prompt you to confirm installation, please click Install button below to start installation 122

124 (5) Please be patient while EdiView is being installed. (6) When EdiView utility is successfully installed, you ll see this message. Click Open to launch EdiView utility now, or click Complete to launch EdiView utility later 123

125 (7) You can launch EdiView by clicking EdiView icon in All Applications (8) When you launch EdiView, it will search for all Edimax network cameras on your network. Please make sure you re connected to wireless access point if your Edimax network camera is located on your local area network. 124

126 If you want to add a Ediamx network camera on Internet, please click Manually button to abort and setup network camera manually (9) In this page, you can input network camera s parameters manually Name: You can define a name for this network camera to help you to remember the purpose / location of this network camera Cloud / IP Mode Switch: Click this button to switch operating mode between Cloud and IP. In cloud mode you have to input Cloud ID**; In IP mode you have to input IP address or host name of network camera User Name: Input the user name of network camera. Default user name is admin Password: Input the password of network camera. Default user name is 1234 Click Add to add a new network camera with parameters listed above. 125

127 (10) When an network camera has been added successfully, you ll see it appear in EdiView utility s camera list Please repeat last step to add more network cameras you wish to connect. To repeat last step, press Menu key on your Android device and click Add button (11) If the network camera is connected, you ll see a picture appear. Click the Picture to view live image 126

128 If there are new events available, click icon To configure network camera s parameters, click icon (12) When you click an network camera in camera list, you ll see its live image Like this. You can hold your Android device horizontally to enlarge network camera s live image view. If the network camera you connected supports Pan & Tilt, you can click button and use your finger to slide on the live image to the direction you wish to move. 127

129 (13) To take a snapshot of current live image and save it on your Android device, click button. You ll see Save Snapshot message appear, which indicates a snapshot has been taken. 128

130 (14) If you have more than 1 network cameras, you can click button and you can see the image of up to 4 network cameras at the same time; Click on the camera s image to enlarge it You can also click button to see up to 12 network cameras at the same time. (15) To configure the video display parameters of this network camera, click button, and you can drag the slide bar to configure parameters: Brightness: Configure video brightness Saturation: Configure video saturation. Sharpness: Configure video sharpness. Video Quality: Configure video quality by setting a lower (left) or higher (right) image quality. When network speed is slow, using a lower video quality will help. Pan & Tilt speed: configure the camera moving speed when you use pan / tilt function 129

131 Click Done button when you finish, or click Cancel to abort. You ll see the result after you click Done. (16) When a new event (movement) has been detected by network camera, you ll see icon appear in network camera list. You can click it to see events. 130

132 (17) All events will be displayed here, with the time which triggered this event. Click on the event to see enlarged picture (18) The image of this event will be displayed with the time triggered this event. To see enlarged picture, hold your Android device horizontally 131

133 (19) To save a snapshot of this event, click button. You ll see Saved event image successfully message to prompt you that image has been saved successfully. (20) When you re in camera list, press Menu button on your Android device. A menu will appear on the bottom of EdiView utility. See live images of network cameras Use google map to locate network cameras Add a new network camera Reload network camera list 132

134 (21) You can use this function to mark your network camera on Google map, so you can locate them and remember their physical location easily. Please note that you need active Internet connection to show map on your Android device. Click Map button at the bottom of your Android device to access Map menu 133

135 (22) Google map will be shown on your Android device, and it will attempt to locate your current location by GPS and network If you re using your Android device indoor, your A may fail to locate your location. You can still use your finger to drag the map and find your current location manually. If the network camera you re about to mark on the map does not locate at your current location, you can also use your finger to drag the map and find the location where your network camera is installed A blue pin indicating the location of network camera will be placed at the center of map. 134

136 (23) When you found the location where network camera is installed, press Menu button on your Android device and click Locate button and a camera list will be shown. Select the network camera you wish to mark on the map. 135

137 4.3 Web browser installation Please make sure your web browser supports JAVA first. If your web browser does not support JAVA, you can install JAVA from website: and get JAVA software. (If your web browser does not support JAVA, you ll see this message when you try to use JAVA browser) (1) If you re not login Windows as system administrator, please use system administrator to launch Internet Explorer. To do so, right-click Internet Explorer icon and click Run as administrator. NOTE: You must use 32-bit Internet Explorer! 136

138 (2) Input the following web address in your web browser s address bar: XXXXXXXXXXXX.myedimax.com. Where XXXXXXXXXXXX is the 12 characters of your Edimax network camera s MAC address. If you don t know the MAC address of your Edimax IP camera, you can log onto network camera s web configuration menu and click System -> System Information -> Status -> LAN to see its MAC address. (3) If you see this message, click Run to continue (4) Please wait while JAVA loads, and please input your network camera s password to login. Default password is Click OK to continue. 137

139 (5) You should be able to see the image of network camera now. You can click function buttons below. Enlarge / reduce image size Click + or button to enlarge or reduce image size, this is very useful when you want to see details of certain object in the image. 138

140 Configure network camera Click this button to display network camera configuration menu and you can chage the parameters of IP camera. Click Apply to save changes or click Cancel to discard changes. Pan-tilt control Click this button and a set of arrow will be shown on the image. Click the arrow to move network camera to the direction indicated by the arrow. Click circle located in the center or arrow set to return network camera to Home (original) position. If you no longer need to use pan-tilt function, click this button again 139

141 Snapshot Click this button to take a snapshot of current image and save on your computer s hard drive. You ll be prompted to select a folder on your computer. Full-screen view Click this button to enlarge image view to full-screen size, all functino buttons will disappear to maximumize display area. Click anywhere in the image to return to normal display mode. 140

142 Chapter V: Appendix 5.1 Specifications Max Resolution: 1280 x 1024 pixels Sensor: 1.3Mega pixels 1/4" color CMOS sensor Gain control: Automatic Exposure: Automatic White Balance: Automatic Image (Video Setting) Image compression: MJPEG/MPEG4/H.264 Image Video Digital 24-bit Color Frame rate: 10-15fps@SXGA, XGA, 30fps@QVGA, 20fps@VGA Video resolution: MJPG&H.264: 1280x1024, 640x480, 320x240 MPEG4: 1024x768, 640x480, 320x240 System Hardware LAN Connector: One RJ-45 port to connect to 10/100Mbps Ethernet Wireless: IEEE b/g/n (*Wireless Model Only) LED Indicator: Power/Audio/LAN/WLAN for wired and wireless model Power/Audio/ACT/LAN for POE model HTTP/Utility Includes easy-to-find and surveillance utility Provides Web based Management View multiple cameras simultaneously on PC surveillance software up to 16 cameras at a time Supports 16 additional user accounts for viewing camera Auto sending Snap Shot or video by or FTP Support NO-IP DNS and UPnP functions Supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 Firmware Upgradeable EMI & Safety FCC, CE class B 141

143 5.2 How to apply for a free DNS account at It s very likely your IP address (the Internet location) keeps changing every a couple of hours or every day depending on your ISP s policy. Therefore, as shown in the following figure, you may be assigned with an IP address, hours ago, and now with a new IP address, This means the router at My-home can be found at over the Internet is no longer available after a few hours. To find out the new location (IP address) of the router at My home over the Internet, you need to login to the router, checking the new IP address. However, this is not a workable solution. To overcome this problem, an Internet service called NO-IP DNS is designed to help you trace the log of the changing IP address linking with a web site address (URL). As shown in the following figure, one PC called DNS server keeps revising the record your-name.no-ip.org vs in its internal DNS directory. It ends up entering in the iphone can find out the 2 network camera at My-home. The following are steps to apply for an account named your-name.no-ip.org in the and how this account is configured into Edimax router. Note: is not a branch or affiliate of Edimax. No commercial relation is involved between these 2 companies. The related service offered in the is for free for a specific time. However, Edimax does not guarantee this service. First, go to and apply for an account. 142

144 And follow the steps: Now, you could locate your home network camera using 143

145 5.3 Troubleshooting If the network camera is not working properly, before you contact the dealer of purchase for help, please check the troubleshooting list here, this may help you to solve the problem by yourself and therefore saves your valuable time. Scenario I can not connect to network camera Possible Solution a. Please confirm the IP address setting of the computer you re using. If they re not in the same subnet, they will not be able to communicate with each other. b. Please make the IP address you used to connect to the network camera is correct. c. If you forget the IP address of the network camera, you will have to reset it to factory default value (which is ) by pressing reset button at the bottom of the network camera. You ll need a pen or pin to be able to press the reset button. Press and hold reset button for 5 seconds, then try to connect to the network camera with IP address again. d. Please make sure network camera is correctly powered (the Power LED should be on). e. If you re trying to connect to the network camera from Internet, please make sure the port that network camera uses (Video and HTTP port, see section 2.3.1) is not blocked by firewall or other software / hardware. Image refreshes very slow f. Contact dealer of purchase for help, if above solutions do not work. a. Try a higher frame rate setting, if it s not 30. b. Try a lower resolution. 144

146 c. If you re connecting this camera from Internet, it could be caused by a slow Internet connection, and it s not a problem caused by camera. However, when the network connection is slow, you should use lower frame rate / resolution. d. Adjust the antenna if you re using wireless connection. The antenna should be perpendicular to the ground to get best reception, and the distance between network camera and computer / wireless access point should not be too far. Network camera is not responding e. Try to adjust MTU setting if you re using PPPoE to connect to Internet. Ask your ISP or network administrator for detailed instruction. a. Is the network cable or wireless connection disconnected? Please check it. b. Unplug the power adapter from wall socket and plug it in again after 10 seconds, then try to connect to the network camera again. Image is fuzzy c. If network camera is correctly powered ( Power LED is on), but you still can not connect to the camera when you re sure that IP address is correct, please contact dealer of purchase for help). a. Adjust the focus ring on the camera until the image becomes clear. b. Use a soft cloth to clean the lens on the camera. You can use cloth with water, but DO NOT use alcohol or other chemical solution. c. Try to adjust brightness setting. d. If there s any light at the place where network 145

147 camera is located, switch it on and see if image looks better. I set the network camera to send image by or FTP, but nothing is received a. If the image is send by , please make sure it s not blocked by any anti-spam mechanism. b. Please make sure you have enough permission for FTP uploading (You can try this by clicking Upload a test file button). c. Make sure the user name and / or password of SMTP server is correct, if your SMTP server requires authentication (You can try this by click Send a test button). d. Please check log, if FTP upload or sending is failed, it will be logged, and this may give you some clue on how to solve the problem. I heard strange sound when I use pan / tilt function Nothing is heard at the camera side when I use Speak to IPCam function e. Change the threshold to a more sensitive setting. a. Please check if anything jams the camera, remove it. a. If the camera does not respond to you when you re trying to use pan / tilt function, the servo motor inside the camera may dead. Please return the camera to the dealer of purchase and ask for help. An external speaker is required to playback the voice received at computer side. 146

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